Letter: The day off is way off

Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in fourteen hundred ninety two,
When he landed all depends, on how we celebrate week-ends.
Tomorrow is Columbus Day, October twelve. No man, no way!
Monday was the legal date: “Columbus Day, October eight.”
My calendar is hardly candid. It lists the day our Captain landed,
But over in another spot, it lists the day when he did not.
Next year Columbus, not so keen, will take his time until fourteen.
It’s lucky that Queen Isabella, didn’t know this sailor fella,
Was sometimes fast and sometimes slow. He’d have never got the dough!
‘Twas a time when kids in school, didn’t have this shifting rule.
From year to year a date would stand. They always knew when Chris would land,
And when in May our dead to mourn. And when our heroes all were born.
But now traditions in our nation, are less important than vacation.